Wednesday, June 18, 2008

glucose test results

So I just got my glucose tests back and they were NORMAL (too bad I'm not) but that was cool. The testing itself was such a pain.
I didn't eat after 9pm, which would have been fine regularly except knowing that I wasn't allowed to eat, just made it more difficult not to.
Andi and I had gotten up early to take the dogs to the park.... Then I went into Emanuel's outpatient lab for my 10am (first) blood draw. Well, needless to say their lab was packed and completely running behind so I finally got my first blood draw at 11am. Had to drink glucose (twice the amount I had to drink for the first screening) so it was super sugary and made me feel a bit nauseous, especially since that was all I had had was water for 14 hours. Getting poked four times in one day is a lot too. The lab people were cool and tried to use different veins for each draw, which was nice.
So I get back out to my car around 2:15pm and there's a ticket from security chastising me for parking in a "visitor/guest" lot with a employee sticker... Needless to report, I was feeling fairly grouchy and tired by this time so I decided to wait to call them until the next day. So, I called Emanuel's security who told me to start leaving notes in my window stating that I am a patient there today, not an employee. How frustrating and dumb - don't they know that I have pregnant brain syndrome? And if I'm in labor, don't think I'm gonna be remembering the stupid post it note for my window.... Apparently you can get "written up" for doing this too many times... But I suppose the good news of all of this is that I don't have gestational diabetes so that's one less thing to have to deal with! So, yah!
p.s. the baby is a butternut squash this week (if anyone is in the slightest bit curious to know what fruit/veggie he is compared to for this week!)

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